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\begin{document}

\author{Brandon Payne}
\date{August 20, 2015}
\title{Working Title for Saposnik Paper: \\ Trying to finish this summer.}
%\affiliation{Sede Boker \\ Spring (2015)}
\input{./title.tex} 
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Ok, so I made some more changes.  Does that diff thing work?  I have no idea how to make that work.
\blockquote{You can use overleaf.com also instead of installing latex.\ac[40]{BenRafael2002}}
Half a century later the scientific research has been done.  What is the evidence that confirms Rosen's supposition that despite the normativists' desires, Israeli is not Hebrew?


This is another first cite.\ac{Keesing1988}.  Back to the first.\ac[122]{BenRafael2002} and on to the third.\ac{Wekker1996}

Let's try an ibid.  \footnote{"because they are fun" \cite[58]{Wekker1996}}
\begin{center}  
  \begin{tabular} {|r|l|}
  \hline
  regular & inchoative \tabularnewline
  \hline
  be sitting & sit down\tabularnewline
  jašav /zicn & hitjašev/[avek]zecn zix \tabularnewline
  \hline
  be lying down & lie down \tabularnewline
 šaxav/lign & niškav/[avek]lejgn zix \tabularnewline
  \hline
  be standing & stand up\tabularnewline
  amad/štejn & ne'emad/[avek]štejn zix\tabularnewline
  \hline
  be halted & come to a halt\tabularnewline
  amad/štejn & ne'emad/opštejn zix\tabularnewline
  \hline
 
  \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
Here are some italics and bold.  The reference software I showed you was Mendeley and BibDesk.
In cases like \it{hi\textbf{shpríts}} `splash' (3ms\textsc{PAST}) \it{hi\textbf{shprátsti}} `I splashed' (1s\textsc{PAST}).  And then Ben-Gurion said, "\begin{hebrew}מה הבעיה?\end{hebrew}"\ac{Keesing1988}
Some kind of conclusion.  Is usually in order.  ?-T doesn't do anything in TeXShop.  Oh, wait, it does.  And 


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